AMD's Radeon RX 9070 graphics card serves up excellent performance for its price and easily outshines Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5070. (The slightly costlier RX 9070 XT is a better value, though.)

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT graphics cards are the new mid-range champions of this generation. Both cards offer phenomenal performance while undercutting their Nvidia competition in price. They go up for sale on March 6 starting at 6am PST.

Nvidia’s dominance over the latest generation of graphics cards ends today. AMD might have surrendered the high end of the GPU market, but its new $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 RX 9070 XT look set to bring Nvidia back to reality, at least in the midrange.

Nvidia got a jump on AMD when it introduced hardware-accelerated ray-tracing in the RTX 20-series in 2018. And while these effects were only supported in a few games at the time, many modern games offer at least some kind of ray-traced lighting effects.

AMD's Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT offer faster performance and more memory than Nvidia's lackluster RTX 5070. Hail to the new 1440p gaming champions.

At $600, AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT is just where it needs to be to compete for 4K gaming against the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti.

AMD's Radeon RX 9070 falls right in line behind the Radeon RX 9070 XT in its Radeon RX 9000 series of graphics cards. Though a competent card in its own right, the $549 Radeon RX 9070 sits in the shadow of the generally better-value $599 Radeon RX 9070 XT,

Following the launch of AMD's Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT graphics cards, some customers report that their preorders are being canceled.